Where Would You Sit at the Feast?

How it works

Nine questions, four answers each, taken at random from a longer bank. They are about noise tolerance, food, standing, and how you feel three hours into an evening you did not choose — the practical facts that decide where a person is comfortable, rather than the social facts that decide where they are placed. The two are almost never the same, and the gap between them is what the quiz is measuring.

All of it happens in this page. No answer is sent, none of it is kept, no account is asked for, and the file arrived complete, so it works with no connection at all.

The seven places in the hall

The high table — visible from everywhere, on display all evening, and unable to eat properly.
The left of the dais — near enough to be seen with the great, far enough to be ignored by them.
The second table — household knights, competent people, the best conversation in the building.
The musicians' corner — in the room all night, part of the furniture, watching everything.
The kitchen door — first at the food, first out of the room, and on good terms with everyone who matters.
The yard — outside with the dogs, the grooms and the fire, which is where the actual party is.
The watch — not at the feast. Somebody has to be on the wall, and you volunteered.

Why the seating plan is the most honest document in the castle

Nothing in a great hall is accidental. Every table's distance from the dais is a statement, every place at it was argued over by somebody, and the person who was moved three feet further down this year knows about it and will know about it in ten years' time. It is one of the very few situations where a society writes down what it actually thinks of everybody and then makes them all sit in it for four hours. This quiz ignores what the plan would say about you and asks instead where you would put yourself if the plan did not exist — which is a different, more interesting and considerably less flattering question.

Sending your place on

Where you end up is packed into the page address, so the link opens on the same card for anybody, without an account or a sign-up. The card can also be downloaded as an image, drawn inside the page with nothing fetched from anywhere.

This is fan-made, and unofficial

This quiz is about a great hall in a fictional kingdom. It is a free, unofficial fan quiz — an unofficial fan tribute, made for fun. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, or any official Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, or Tales of Dunk and Egg property.

It quotes nothing from any book or television series; the seven places and every question were written for this page. Iron Realms — the strategy game the rest of this site is about — is an original fantasy world with its own map, its own houses and its own art, and has no connection to Westeros. This corner is kept separate on purpose, and nothing in it should be read as suggesting otherwise.

Where the rest of them are

The wedding quiz is the same hall on a considerably worse night. The Westeros — ASOIAF & Game of Thrones section lists every quiz and tool in this wing, and the fan tributes hub has the rest of the corner. If you would rather play something than answer questions, Iron Realms is free and runs in a browser tab.